Excessive Poaching May Be Causing African Elephants To Evolve Without Tusks
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While elephants born without tusks are not unheard of, they normally comprise just 2 to 6 percent of the herd population. However, that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, where an astounding 33 percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in 1992, are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence, Joyce Poole, an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer, has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing an unnaturally induced evolution of the species due to the incessant poaching of the mammals for their valuable tusks.
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- some one6년 이상its so thay dont get hunted for there tusk thall be ok that dont fight with tusk thay fight with there trunks
- fernandina6년 이상let them be
- A.E6년 이상I 💙 packaderms
- A.E6년 이상Leave these poor souls alone 😠!!!!!!!!! If they don't have tusks they can't defend them selves!!!!! So sad😭😭😭😭
- Small man6년 이상Elephants don't deserve this kind of treatment! we need to do something to help Elephants
- A.E6년 이상Leave the poor little elephants alone😾!!! This is so sad😭😭😭😭
- kimo6년 이상i don't think its ok for elephant to not have tusk because without them how can they protect there self just because they are big doesn't mean they can just step on the preditor
- ARKOREAN6년 이상omg these elephants are so sad! they should really stop it once and for all!
setinijiziposi6년 이상poaching was banned in 1982.- Ryan B.6년 이상Wow, this is really sad. :(